One thing I've tended to wonder, why have a single read-write needle on conventional drives (especially in multi-platter situations). Why not have two needles, one on either side so they can't touch.
Alternately, why not a "track" that runs across the drive with shuttles on either side to perform the reads/writes. You could have two perpendicular tracks to increase performance

You know, that is one of the most reasonable clauses I've seen in a very long time.

Basically, we expect you to make decent efforts at bookkeeping. If we think you're shafting you, we'll pay for the audit, unless you really are shafting us in which case you pay for the audit and the licensing-related costs.

In Java no less.
I don't know that the engine is all that shitty though. It's more than I've seen from most with a java-based engine.

"They can even start their own PayPal competitor if they want."

Not so useful is said competitor is blocked from accepting debit/credit payments.

"The older S5 with a removable battery and a SD card will see the price down."

And... the S5 is waterproof (or at least very water resistant)
I don't see that mentioned as a feature in the article for the S6.

Just checked, apparently mine is version

WD-3.02.6-NSA-1

"Give people stable, productive jobs."

Maybe because mental health, jobs, and generally dealing with people in poor life-situations is bloody terrible in N America, though likely less so that in the middle-east.

You'll always have stupid young people making bad decisions. Recruiting for ISIS seems to be better at nabbing these.
The rest seem to be people that are generally pissed off at life and/or smile at the idea of putting the hurt on somebody else. They're sick, and they've found a sick cause to latch on to.

Question: Does it work when the lamp etc is turned off (but plugged in)

Also, I really hope they come up with a better design, because while the feature may be desirable, the lamps are butt-ugly!

If a bear eats a Zombie's brains...what will happen?

I can finally stop worrying about my picnic lunch?

Having used both removable batteries and external battery bricks, the external battery brick is FAR more useful.

Probably so. Luckily, there's a much better way to go. Throw out the original battery, replace it with one that has several times the capacity, replace the back with the supplied replacement, and buy the appropriate hardshell if that's how you roll.

Result? More battery life than a brick, no having to plug in all the time, and no need to remove the battery until it dies, which will likely be some years down the road.

When I bought my Note 3 (SM-N900V), it wouldn't last a day. I'd have to turn it off (not use apps, etc.) before bedtime if I wanted it to have enough juice left to receive a call, text, IM or email, etc. -- it would hit 5% by 9pm or so. Once I replaced the battery, I just pop the thing on the charger about every other day while I'm sleeping and have no worries. It'll go three full days of use, but that does put the battery down to about 20%, so I tend to avoid it.

This makes the phone thicker and heavier. I don't mind a bit. But some people would.

The use case for easily replaceable batteries is pretty weak.

Not until the phone can run for several days of hard use without a charge, it isn't.

A replaceable battery costs more upfront and is incompatible with thinness. Most people get a new phone long before the battery dies.

After buying my Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900V) and using it for a little while, I learned that the battery would hold up about 14 hours under the kind of use I made of it. So I replaced the battery with one that has about 3x the capacity, replaced the back of the phone with a back that would properly contain the new, much thicker battery, and got myself a new case for the resulting assembly.

The resulting phone (which I am delighted with) is not thin. In order to make me happy, the battery had to be replaced well before it died. The cost of the extra battery and case and hardshell added quite a bit to the bottom line cost of the phone. But the result was the best phone I'd ever used. I gave my iPhone to one of the kids and have never looked back. I do have a late-model iPad, but I rarely use it any longer other than to continue to play some long-standing word, chess, carcassonne, and upwords opponents. My desktop machine is a mac.

Based on my experience, I'd at least take a look at a new Samsung before any other Android platform. I'm no longer willing to consider Apple at all.

[Optimism] is something, the author argues, that is sorely missing from the new J.J. Abrams movies.

Every bit you can get closer to reality is what tends to separate better SF from worse SF. I look around me, and I see very little reason for optimism. I see no reason for optimism in ST:TOS, either, it was sort of invasive. ST:TOS was a litany of "everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and the expendables (red shirts) are gonna die. ST:TNG, the same, except also, if IRL you appeared in Playboy, you're gonna die. ST:STE was dark as hell (and frankly, with that huge story arc, for me, the most enjoyable, despite what I perceived as a rather wooden captain in the first few episodes. Hoshi, Phlox, Trip and T'Pal made up for that, and then some.)

So. He may be right -- optimism is missing -- but I see it as a feature, not a bug. I look forward to the possibility of more of the franchise.

With zombies, you have a pathogen which is fast acting and has very high fatality rates, but continues to spread through a reservoir (the zombies).

They could have just modeled stupidity. Replace high fatality rates with low performance, and you have the same set of conditions.

Wait... I thought the first proper zombie movie was Romero's Night of the Living Dead, set in Pennsylvania.

Although they're technically vampires, I'm still going to go with Richard Matheson's "I am Legend" (1954.) Other than the fact that they weren't specifically after your brainz, Matheson's hordes of mindless, aggressive, human-seeking infected pretty much cover all the bases.

Besides, you have Triffids... be happy with that.

I agree. Also, they had giant wasps -- Keith Robert's "The Furies." Awesome book.

Bloody greedy UK types.